Posted by Alexia Tasca, on 29 March 2021
Introduction In mucociliary epithelia, such as the mammalian airway epithelium or the embryonic epidermis of Xenopus tadpoles, the correct balance between multiciliated cells (MCCs) and secretory cells provides the functional ...Posted by Carla Lloret-Fernandez, on 25 March 2021
By Rachel Bonnington, Carla Lloret Fernández and Laura Molina García Classically, developmental programmes were believed to be a one-way linear process in which cells progressively acquire their differentiated identities, each ...Posted by Marcos Simoes-Costa, on 15 March 2021
Jacqueline Copeland and Marcos Simoes-Costa Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA The neural crest has long been referred to as “the fourth germ layer” for ...Posted by Edgar Herrera Delgado, on 1 March 2021
Developmental patterning is an essential process for multicellular development, as it drives the cell-fate decisions that determine an organism’s body plan. One of the aspects that has fascinated me is ...Posted by ozbudak, on 4 February 2021
Oriana Zinani, Kemal Keseroğlu, Ahmet Ay and Ertuğrul Özbudak on how gene pairing promotes oscillations in segmentationPosted by Guoye Guan, on 2 February 2021
A joint research team co-led by Prof. Chao Tang (Peking University, PKU), Prof. Zhongying Zhao (Hong Kong Baptist University, HKBU) and Prof. Hong Yan (City University of Hong Kong, CityU) ...Posted by Hannah Long, on 25 January 2021
Hannah Long tells the story of how she uncovered the genetic basis of a developmental disorderPosted by SDuranNebreda, on 20 January 2021
During their journey from zygote to adult, embryos experience several symmetry breaking processes. Structures which are not isotropic (equal in all directions) are formed, creating the inside-out axis, forward-backwards axis, ...Posted by Bert De Rybel, on 16 December 2020
Jos Wendrich, Yvan Saeys and Bert De Rybel take us on a single cell journey through the Arabidopsis rootPosted by Sofia Araújo, on 14 December 2020
In the Genetics of Cell Behaviour in Development laboratory, at the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics at the University of Barcelona, we work with the terminal cells (TCs) of ...